Beschreibung:
Medicine in the twenty-first century is increasingly reliant on research to guarantee the safety and efficacy of medical interventions. As a result, the need to understand the ethical issues that research generates is becoming essential. This volume introduces the principal areas of concern in research on human subjects, offering a framework for understanding research ethics, and the relationship between ethics and compliance.
1. Human Subjects Research: Ethics and Compliance 2. Ethics of Vaccine Research 3. Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Genetic Research 4. Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Therapeutic Cloning: Maintaining the Ethical Tension between Respect and Research 5. Conducting and Terminating Randomized Controlled Trials 6. Ethics in Behavioral and Social Sciences Research 7. When Should Research with Infants, Children, or Adolescents Be Permitted? 8. Biomedical Research in the Developing World: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas 9. Financial Conflicts of Interest and the Human Passion to Innovate 10. Interpreting Scientific Data Ethically: A Frontier for Research Ethics